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Despairation

Music for the night

This is the original english version of the interview. Italian version contains a brief introduction. Fabrizio Garau (FG): Despairation is well known in Germany, but with Music for the night a new “European” phase is starting: could you please present the band? Sascha Blach (SB): We started the band in 1994 and released our first […]

des Esseintes

Les Diaboliques

Luckily, Magnus Sundström is again on Fucine Mute. This time I tried to understand what’s be’ind his project called des Esseintes, like the protagonist of “A rebours”. On the Fin de Siècle Media website des Esseintes is presented as his “more sinister alter ego”: when the amazing album “Les Diaboliques” will be in the cd […]

Aleksandar Zograf

Is there life in the Balkans?

VS: As Spiegelman in Maus or Satrapi in Persepolis, you use a sort of simple, but strong, underground style to express with the comic language your point of view on the life and facts of your country… Why did you choose comics (I know that you are also a good journalist) and how did you […]

Song Il-gon

Spider forest

Xenia Docio Altuna (XD): We’re with the director Song Il Gon. His first film was “Flower Island”, in 2001, that won the “Opera prima” prize at Venezia film festival. Now at the San Sebastian film festival you’re showing your film “Spider forest”. Can you tell us a little bit about your career in cinema? How […]

Negru Voda

Dobruja Region

Peter Nyström is the man be’ind projects like Megaptera and Negru Voda. His new album — titled Dobruja Region — is out. Harsh, beating rhythm and noise, but not only… Fabrizio Garau (FG): Peter, you had a huge impact on the Swedish (and non Swedish) industrial ambient scene. What do you think you added to […]

Ekachai Uekrongtham

Beautiful Boxer

Xenia Docio Altuna (XD): This is your first film, Beautiful Boxer. Before you had worked in theatre, with the Action Theatre. Can you explain us a little bit about your work in theatre and about how did this work influence your cinema? Ekachai Uekrongtham (EU): Well, I’ve been working in theatre for a long time. […]

Hubert Sauper

Darwin’s Nightmare

Xenia Docio Altuna (XD): So we’re here with Hubert Sauper. He was born in Austria, he studied cinema at Vienna and Paris, and he lived in many different countries, such as Great Britain, Italy, France, where he lives now, and USA. On 1990 he made his first film, and then can you tell us about […]

Sleeping At Last

Night must end

Umberto Lisiero (UL): How did you have the idea of forming a band? Is it true that the name of your band has been inspired by this Psalm of the Bible: “My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from him.” (Ps 62.1)? RO: When I was about 13 years old, I listened […]

Peccatum

The contagious and the invisible

Ihsahn adn Ihriel, the creative duo be’ind “Peccatum”, about their third full length “Lost in Reverie”, an album that simply go further. Fabrizio Garau (FG): In an old interview, Ihsahn said: “Peccatum is art for art’s sake”. I think that “Lost in Reverie” is both “art for art’s sake” and some sort of new beginning […]

Enid

The Wanderer-theme

Enid’s Martin Wiese and Florian “Alboin” Dammasch about “Gradwanderer”, Romanticism and Middle Age. Fabrizio Garau (FG): In my opinion, “Gradwanderer” is strongly related to the German word “Sehnsucht”. Could you explain what does this word mean for you? Florian “Alboîn” Dammasch (FD): To me “Sehnsucht” means a lot, it’s a very poetical and romantic word […]